White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream, 2007 - 320 pages "White cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Briatin's American colonies." "Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Jordan and Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule." --book jacket. |
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... Africans were merely joining it , for they too were treated as indentured servants . No flood of Africans followed them . The transaction was a one - off . Although the Dutch and Portuguese were bringing out slaves in their thousands ...
... Africans were merely joining it , for they too were treated as indentured servants . No flood of Africans followed them . The transaction was a one - off . Although the Dutch and Portuguese were bringing out slaves in their thousands ...
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... Africans . The shift from the time - limited servitude of Englishmen to the lifetime slavery of Africans was prompted by economics as much as racism . The Caribbean plantations were demonstrating the much larger profits that an openly ...
... Africans . The shift from the time - limited servitude of Englishmen to the lifetime slavery of Africans was prompted by economics as much as racism . The Caribbean plantations were demonstrating the much larger profits that an openly ...
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... African and Native Americans degraded 212 Africans intake 87 , 171 , 176 convict intake 13 , 17 , 42 children ' kept for Virginia ' , see children descriptions of 35 England's claim to 34 freedom ideals 17 grandees ' nightmare 212 ...
... African and Native Americans degraded 212 Africans intake 87 , 171 , 176 convict intake 13 , 17 , 42 children ' kept for Virginia ' , see children descriptions of 35 England's claim to 34 freedom ideals 17 grandees ' nightmare 212 ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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